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Subscription Series II
Chamber Series II showcases leading Czech artists and rising talents. The Lobkowicz Trio opens the season, followed by baritone Jiří Rajniš. The Wihan Quartet and the Danish String Quartet will both perform works by Composer-in-Residence Bryce Dessner.
The Lobkowicz Trio presents a Romantic-themed opening, followed by Jiří Rajniš in a recital featuring Mahler, Korngold and Neapolitan songs. The series also celebrates a decade of the Chamber Music Academy, including the world premiere of a work by Jan Ryant Dřízal. In October, this season’s curator Mahan Esfahani begins his complete performance of Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier. The final concerts focus on string quartets: the Wihan Quartet, marking their 40th season, and the acclaimed Danish String Quartet, making their Prague debut. Both ensembles will perform works by Bryce Dessner, this season’s Composer-in-Residence.
Subscription series II
What's On
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Trio élégiaque No. 1 in G minor (15')
Otomar Kvěch
Piano Trio
Fritz Kreisler
Three Pieces for piano trio (10')
— Intermission —
Johannes Brahms
Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Op. 8 (33')
Performers
Lobkowicz Trio
Jan Mráček violin
Ivan Vokáč cello
Lukáš Klánský piano
What's On
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I, BWV 846-857 (110')
Performers
Mahan Esfahani harpsichord
What's On
Richard Strauss
Capriccio, selections
Performers
Kukal Quartet
Eliška Halečková Kukal violin
Klára Lešková violin
Daniel Macho viola
Filip Rufer cello
Jan Fišer viola
Vilém Vlček cello
Gustav Mahler
Piano Quartet in A minor (quartet movement) (10')
Performers
Trio Incendio
Karolína Falkenauer Františová piano
Filip Zaykov violin
Vilém Petras cello
Anežka Jiráčková viola
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Quintet for piano and winds in E flat major, K 452 (24')
Performers
Slavic Trio
Barbora Trnčíková oboe
Anna Sysová clarinet
Petr Sedlák bassoon
Přemysl Vojta French horn
Jakub Sládek piano
— Intermission —
Jan Ryant Dřízal
Suite Mortale (world premiere) (20')
Performers
Eliška Bošková flute
Nathan Ca’Zorzi flute
Štěpánka Andělová oboe
Tereza Tourková oboe
Anna Paulová clarinet
Gabriela Matoušková clarinet
Petr Sedlák/Emílie Smoláková bassoon
Přemysl Vojta French horn
Klára Dohnalová French horn
Hao-Chun Sung French horn
Amelia Tokarska harph
Tomáš Jamník cello
Tomáš Karpíšek double bass
Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo string instruments (28')
Performers
Jan Fišer violin
Cosima Soulez Larivière violin
Kateřina Krejčová violin
Eliška Halečková Kukal violin
Klára Lešková violin
Filip Zaykov violin
Natálie Toperczerová violin
Terézie Hledíková violin
Marek Pavlica violin
Markéta Anna Peldová violin
Anežka Jiráčková viola
Conrad Jacobshagen viola
Karolína Franclíková viola
Bohumil Bondarenko viola
Daniel Macho viola
Tomáš Jamník cello
Vilém Vlček cello
David Pěruška cello
Vilém Petras cello
Filip Rufer cello
Tomáš Karpíšek double bass
Zdeněk Pazourek double bass
Theodor Ditrich double bass
Performers
Instructors, members, and graduates of the Chamber Music Academy Villa Musica Rhineland-Palatinate Foundation scholarship holders
What's On
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Aussicht (1'15)
Der Geniale (0'50)
Das Mädchen (1'30)
from the cycle Twelve Songs, Op. 5 “So Gott und Papa will”
My mistress’ eyes, from the cycle Five Songs, Op. 38 (2'20)
Gustav Mahler
Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (6'50)
Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder (2')
from the cycle Five Songs on Poems by Friedrich Rückert
Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen (6'30)
Es sungen drei Engel einen süßen Gesang (3'30)
Lied des Verfolgten im Turm (4')
Der Schildwache Nachtlied (6')
from the cycle The Youth’s Magic Horn
Francesco Paolo Tosti
Non t’amo più (4'50)
'A vucchella (2'20)
La serenata (3'20)
Luigi Denza
Vieni a me (4'10)
Rodolfo Falvo
Dicitencello vuie (2'40)
Ernesto de Curtis
Non ti scordar di me (3'20)
Stanislao Gastaldon
Musica proibita (3'40)
Cesare Andrea Bixio
Parlami d’amore, Mariù (2'30)
Enrico Cannio
'O surdato 'nnammurato (2'30)
Performers
Jiří Rajniš baritone
Robert Pechanec piano
What's On
Bryce Dessner
Circles (6')
Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 9 in C major, Op. 59, No. 3 (32')
— Intermission —
Franz Schubert
String Quartet No. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden”, D 810 (38')
Performers
Wihan Quartet
Leoš Čepický violin
Jan Schulmeister violin
Jakub Čepický viola
Michal Kaňka cello
Jakub Jedlinský accordion
What's On
Bryce Dessner
Aheym (10')
Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major (29')
— Intermission —
Nordic Folk project
original arrangements of Scandinavian folk music (30')
Performers
Danish String Quartet
Frederik Øland violin
Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen violin
Asbjørn Nørgaard viola
Fredrik Schøyen Sjölin cello